| Author : L |
| Family : Liliaceae |
| Habit:Climber |
| Sanskrit: Langali, Vishalya |
| English: Malabar glory lily, Super Lily |
A branched herbaceous climber, arising from a perennial, fleshy, tuberous, bifurcated rhizome, alternate or opposite or whorled, almost sessile, ovate-lanceolate leaves, with tips modified as tendrils, large, showy flowers, solitary or corymbose, greenish-yellow later turning to yellowish-red and finally scarlet or crimson, fruits long containing many rounded seeds.
Rhizomes, seeds
swollen joints, ulcers, malaria, bleeding, parasitic skin diseases, leprosy, worm infestations, baldness, gonorrhoea, bites of poisonous insects, intermittent fevers, as a purgative, for debility, promoting labour pain, expulsion of the placenta, purgative
Cornigerine, 3-demethyl-N-formyl-N-deacetyl-β-lumicolchicine, 3-demethyl-gamma-lumicolchicine, 3-demethyl-N-formyl-N-deacetylcolchicine, 2-demethylcolchicine, 2,3-didemethyl-N-deacetylcolchicine, 2,3-didemethylcolchicine, 3-demethylcolchicine, 0-demethyl-N-formyldeacetylcolchicine, N-formyldeacetyl-β-lumicolchicine, 0-demethyl-N-formyldeacetyl-β lumicolchicine, 0-demethyl-β-lumicolchicine, N-formyldeacetyl-gamma-lumicolchicine, colchicine, isoperlolyrine, (S) (+) floramultine (bechuanine), 1,12-dihydroxy-2,10,11-trimethoxyhomoaporphine, colchicoside, sitosterol, β & γ-lumicolchicines, 2-hydroxy-6-methoxybenzoic acid, luteolin, N-formyldeacetylcolchicine